Halvorsen fading with 76 flat before the sprints even starts is peak comedy! Another bad race has come to an end for us now. Very strong Zmorka of course in third, but Sütterlin 21st, Vlatos with 79 TT in 184th... Good effort from Ocampo in white of course.
Thank you for five very fine reports, Abhishek, and congratulations to all stage and jersey winners!
One of the best races of the year for us. We really haven't been able to pair one good result with solid depth behind it at the same race. Lammertink has been a lot more up and down this year, but he's up just enough at the right time now. Christodoulos gets his best result of the year with 10th overall. Looks pretty lucky seeing some of the names behind him. And finally Hoelgaard adds a lot of points with his single breakaway
Congrats to the winners and big thanks to Abhi who is really putting in work with the reporting
Safely through again. Good amount of points secured, so that's very much needed in our situation. Würtz with a really good season this year, even though Wirtgen now is the number one. So congrats to SN and thanks for the reports!
Ooh just missed out on the second stage win, but a second place and the points jersey sure is a very good points haul. Combined with Bjerg finishing sixth in the GC Germany has been quite the success.
Thanks for the reports Abhi, gratz to SN for the win
Pretty decent 6th on the final stage from Jakobsen but painfully losing the Points Classification by a single point. Although Ahlstrand is a better rider so I can accept that
GC wise we really didn't do well here with no-one in the Top 20 which is really disappointing from Cosnefroy and Conci. Tells me they're just not up to scratch in TT heavy races at this level.
Vandevelde the shining light though in his final year before he maxes out and he outperformed our 2 leaders and won the U25 classification.
Thank you for the reports and congrats to those who took stage wins and strong GC results away
Well there goes any hopes of promotion, terrible result from Dunbar. He’s had a great season so far, but unfortunately couldn’t keep it up here. Only a couple of races remaining for him now, he’s gonna have to be flawless if we’re to have a chance + Bagioli is going to have to finish the season the way he started - Britain is going to be a very important race for us.
Nur Hasan involved in every sprint is great, but my god that man’s positioning is poor.
Congrats to Grieg and the frisbees on a good result! And than you for the lovely reports.
They say the most stupid errors are those you do more than once. In that regard, it kind of sucks to see Groves jumping early again.
On the other hand, I cannot blame him for picking Kanter's wheel again. I wish he had done that in the flat classics, as he'd have gotten great results with that strategy. Here, the Pumas just messed up the sprint prep, which affected Kaden as well in the end...
But even though I was hoping for a bit more after his great stage 2 win, he definitely delivered once again and ends his (official) season with 943 points - awesome! Let's see if I can find him a Swiss grandmother or so, to justify training him further
GC-wise, two Top 20 finishes is about the best case scenario. Which kind of makes up for the 3 other TTers being blown away by the wind in the ITT, resulting in no-one else inside the Top 50. I guess others were hit far worse; I'm thankful we had quite some depth to prepare for such a scenario.
120 points is almost as good as last year where we won the KoM, and twice as many points as expected. Job done, well done even.
Congrats to SN, Wirtgen already had his blunder races this year so good to see he won this one. And congrats to all others who won something here.
